No worries guys, if he is talking about a reflash Ill gladly give him all the directions needed. But you guys obviously arent too windows savy I see. Back in the pre-XP days when Windows was running atop DOS, the term format c: was equal to wiping the hard drive and starting from scratch It was more about getting rid of the drives content in a quick way rather than wanting to tinker with the filesystem... In short: too many BSOD/Bluescreen of Death meant format c: is needed. Thus I guess cross3131 wants to clean up after gathering knowledge on what to install from devel and what not